Personally, I regret to bought a Samsung Android phone … looking at what others manufacturers are bringing, I see that Samsung is going their own way and that they will not have much Android future. On my Samsung Galaxy, there is no 1.6 update, and little chance to get 2.0 update. No, Samsung is not playing the real opensource game.

That might be the reason they want to jump of the ship.

Fine, but ey guys, where are you going to get your applications from ? I mean, sure you will get zillion of Korean applications for Korean … but I don’t think you will get much european :(

Android is easy to developwith thanks to Java. There are already plenty of application for almost anything on earth on Android. And at the given current pace, I do think in a couple of years (thanks to Apple policy and lack of Java support), Android will be the #1.

Is Samsung afraid of competition ? This is verry surprising, they got the best screen, almost best processors (ask Apple), … only bad designers (samsung mobile are not sexy or modern at all).

Anyway, between plan and reality there is a huge gap. And if Samsung android phone soutperforms they own OS, then be sure this OS will be specified for low-value phones …

Android is realy chalenging the manufacturers and that bring innovation to a quite “calm” market :)

I wonder if Samsung’s “revolutionary” cube interface will be the centerpiece?

I do think Samsung knows what he does.

There will always be huge demand for cheap, brick-like phones. Android is not for that.

Android is fully configurable, shiny-flashy, with quite high hardware requirements.

And google doesn’t intend to lower this.
And this is a good thing. WE – the androiders/smartphoners – don’t need bricks.

But my Mom does. And my Father too. And my Sister too. And my boss couldn’t handle the goodies of such a good mobile – even if she x-) could afford an expensive one.

So the mass market demands low requirements, support for off-standard chipsets, Wifi-less, GPS-less, Cam-less bricks.

For smartphones, we have the perfect OS. For everything else, there is BadA

I agree, I think everyone is watching Android. The smart ones are saying, time to jump on the bandwagon. The others see this as an opportunity to compete based on Android’s success. Samsung better stick to producing Android phones and if necessary try putting a pretty front-end on it (as long as it’s not Touch-Wiz, yuck). I mean think about it, if Windows Mobile is struggling to make a come back (yeah yeah WM 7 right, sure) why does Samsung think they can just jump in.

The biggest problem will be developer support! Which is the real reason WebOS isn’t taking off, evident by their 300-something apps which are mostly flash cards and tip calculators. I mean I’m sure we can all use flash cards right? Devs are flocking to the OS with the largest target audience and the OS with a little bit of cool factor to them (iPhone, Android). Evident by the decline in WM apps and hardware. If Palm’s WebOS couldn’t take off (still early for Palm though) given it’s slick user interface which is semi-comparable to the iPhone I doubt Samsung’s Bada-Doom is going to take off.

It is the “in thing” to have an “open” phone operating system.

Samsung are like the stupid kid trying to copy their bigger brother Google who they wish they could be like.

Thankfully Samsung aren’t retarded like Nokia and are hedging their bets for when the epic fail inevitably occurs.